Esports
nounOrganised competitive video gaming, often played professionally before an audience.
How to spell esports
7 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce esports
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does esports mean?
- nounOrganised competitive video gaming, often played professionally before an audience.
Esports in a sentence
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The arena sold out for the international esports final.
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Several universities now offer scholarships for talented esports players.
Where does esports come from?
Language of origin: Other
This is a very recent compound, formed by clipping 'electronic' down to the single letter 'e' and attaching it to 'sports'. The 'e' prefix follows the same pattern that produced 'email' and 'e-commerce', where it signals that the activity happens by electronic or digital means. 'Sports' itself reaches much further back, coming through Old French from the Latin disportare, meaning literally 'to carry away', which gave the sense of carrying oneself away from work into amusement. The term came into common use in the late 1990s and 2000s as organised competitive video gaming grew into a spectator industry, and it stabilised as a single closed word, no hyphen and no capital, which is exactly the spelling trap many writers hesitate over.
How the word is built
- e- (clipping of electronic)
- sports (competitive games)
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